Episodes

What if the revival you're praying for required you to suffer? Would you still say yes? In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson opens Philippians 3:10, where Paul writes that he wants to know Christ and the power of his resurrection. We love that half of the verse. But Paul keeps going: he also wants the fellowship of Christ's sufferings. Paul didn't treat suffering as proof God had abandoned the plan. He saw it as part of knowing Jesus and as continuing the spread of God's kingdom on ea...

If you've ever felt an unexplainable heaviness or grief for someone you love who doesn't know Jesus, this message is for you, because that weight might not be something wrong with you. In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson explains why Jesus was called the man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief, as Isaiah 53 describes him, and how that same holy weight showed up during the First Great Awakening, when Jonathan Edwards and other believers were criticized by fellow pastors for weep...

Why does doing God's will still hurt sometimes? In today's message, Pastor John S. Dickerson challenges a very American Christian assumption: that being in the center of God's plan should feel comfortable. Using Simeon's prophecy to Mary in Luke 2:35, "a sword will pierce your very soul," Pastor John shows that Mary was fully surrendered to God's will, and it still meant heartbreak, misunderstanding, and eventually watching her son die on the cross. Paul carried a deep burden for the Jewish peop...

Feeling opposition every time you try to grow closer to God? In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson shows why spiritual opposition isn't a sign you're failing, it's often proof you're moving in the right direction. Using the story of Simeon in Luke 2, who prayed for decades to see the Messiah and then prophesied that Jesus would cause many to rise and many to fall, Pastor John traces the theme of opposition through Scripture, from the crowds who turned against Jesus, to Nehemiah facing ...

What if God let you live long enough to see the exact thing you have been praying for? In Luke 2, an old man named Simeon prayed that prayer, and God answered him. In today's message from the One Year to Revival journey, Pastor John S. Dickerson opens up about a prayer that has taken hold of his own heart. Simeon was righteous and devout, and the Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would not die until he saw the Lord's Messiah with his own eyes. When Mary and Joseph brought the infant Jesus ...

If discouragement, doubt, or fear have been hitting you like flaming arrows lately, Ephesians 6:16 has an answer: take up the shield of faith. In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues teaching through Ephesians 6, walking through the last pieces of the armor of God: the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Paul says the shield of faith is what extinguishes every flaming arrow the enemy throws at you. Faith isn't pretend...

If you feel like you win one spiritual battle just to wake up and face another one tomorrow, Ephesians 6 has an answer for the exhaustion of ongoing spiritual warfare. In this teaching from Ephesians 6:13-15, Pastor John S. Dickerson walks through why the armor of God isn't a one-time fix but daily equipment for a battle that keeps coming back. The belt of truth matters because Satan is never fully honest, even when he mixes in a little truth to make his lies land. The breastplate of righteousne...

Ever notice that the moment you start praying harder, serving more, or drawing closer to God, everything seems to go wrong? That's not a coincidence, it's spiritual warfare, and Ephesians 6 tells you exactly why. In this teaching, we go back to Ephesians chapter six, where Paul reminds Christians that our struggle is never really against people, it's against the rulers, authorities, and spiritual forces of darkness working behind the scenes. The more you do for God's kingdom, the bigger a threat...

Ever feel like God is silent when you pray? In Daniel chapter ten, we find out your prayer is heard in heaven the very moment you pray it, even when the answer takes weeks, months, or years to arrive. Daniel prayed for 21 days before an angel finally showed up with a message: he had been on his way the entire time, but he was delayed by a demonic force called the prince of Persia, until the archangel Michael broke through to help him. It is a strange, eye opening picture of what is really happen...

Your struggle was never really against the person who hurt you. Ephesians 6:12 says our fight is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, and spiritual forces of evil we cannot see. In this message, we're journeying through Ephesians 6, one of the clearest spiritual warfare passages in Scripture, and unpacking what it means to put on the full armor of God. You will face demonic opposition as a follower of Jesus, that's normal. But your true enemy is never another human being,...

If you feel like you are under spiritual attack right now, discouraged, anxious, or fighting a battle you cannot fully explain, Ephesians 6 has an answer: you were never meant to fight it in your own strength. In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson opens Ephesians chapter 6 and introduces one of the most important passages in the Bible for spiritual warfare, the armor of God. Before looking at the individual pieces of armor, Pastor John shows why this matters first: the devil is activel...

Nothing can separate you from God's love - not fear, not failure, not even the spiritual attacks you're facing right now. In Romans 8:38-39, Paul makes one of the boldest claims in Scripture: neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, nothing in all creation can separate you from the love of God in Christ Jesus. In this message, Pastor John S. Dickerson walks through the end of Romans 8 and shows why you can rest even in the middle of spiritual warfare. You may feel surrounded right now ...

Nothing can separate you from God's love — not your failures, not spiritual attacks, not even the hardest trial you're walking through right now. In Romans chapter 8, the Apostle Paul asks the question every struggling Christian eventually asks: can trouble, failure, persecution, or spiritual attack separate us from Christ's love? Paul's answer is no. Even when life feels like a losing battle, even when you feel targeted, exhausted, or under attack, Scripture says despite all these things, overw...

If you've ever felt like you're being accused, by guilt, by shame, by a voice telling you that you've failed too many times, today's episode is your defense. In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson walks through the second half of Romans chapter eight, sometimes called an ultimate power flex for anyone facing spiritual warfare. Scripture describes Satan as the accuser of the brethren, the same role he plays against Job, going before God to point out every failure. But Romans 8:31-34 answ...

If you've ever wondered, "I'm already forgiven, so why do I need to keep repenting?" today's episode answers that directly. In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues the study in James 4 and introduces the practice of ongoing repentance, not for salvation, but for relationship. Your sins are already forgiven in Christ and your eternal life is secure, but daily sin still puts dirt on your hands and creates distance in your relationship with God right now. James 4:8 says, "Draw nea...

If you've been trying to resist the devil and it isn't working, the real issue might not be strategy, it's pride. In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues the study in James 4 and shows the direct link between pride and spiritual defeat, and between humility and spiritual victory. James 4:6 says, "God opposes the proud, but shows favor to the humble," and Pastor Dickerson traces this all the way back to Lucifer himself, who fell not from weakness but from pride. Even Jesus, temp...

If you feel like you're under some kind of attack right now — stressed, tempted, stuck, or fighting a heaviness you can't quite explain — the Bible gives you one weapon that works every time: submission to God. In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John S. Dickerson unpacks James 4:7, "submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you," and connects it to 1 Peter 5:9 and to Jesus' own temptation in the wilderness. When you submit to God, you are resisting the devil. When yo...

If you feel alone in your struggle against discouragement, temptation, or spiritual opposition right now, here is a reminder: you are not. In this message, Pastor John S. Dickerson continues in 1 Peter 5, where Peter, writing to Christians facing brutal persecution under Nero, says resist the devil, standing firm in the faith, because your brothers and sisters throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of suffering. Right now there are Christians in nations where owning a Bible is illegal...

If you feel spiritually attacked right now, discouraged, tempted, or like nothing you do is working, here's what Scripture says actually works, and it might not be what you expect. In this message, Pastor John S. Dickerson explains why you can't outsmart or out-muscle the devil in your own strength, but the Spirit of God who lives in you is greater than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4). He unpacks a simple but powerful principle: ongoing sin quenches the Holy Spirit, but ongoing repentance fa...

Is what you're going through right now spiritual warfare, or just an ordinary hard week? It's a question every serious Christian eventually asks, and Scripture actually gives us an answer. In this message, Pastor John S. Dickerson walks through 1 Peter 5:8, "Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour," and explains the balance between ignoring spiritual warfare completely and seeing a demon behind every bush. He shares an encoura...

Have you noticed that the moment you get serious about following God, discouragement, doubt, or mockery seem to show up out of nowhere? You are not imagining it, and you are not alone. In this message, Pastor John S. Dickerson unpacks why opposition is actually a normal, expected part of pursuing revival, drawing from the story of Nehemiah, who faced ridicule, rumors, and even threats from Sanballat and Tobiah while rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Nehemiah's response wasn't to quit. He kept p...

If someone you love is dying and doesn't believe in God, what do you say? In 1982, President Ronald Reagan faced that exact moment, writing a four-page letter to his dying, atheist father-in-law, pleading with him to put his trust in Jesus before it was too late. In this message, Pastor John S. Dickerson shares Reagan's own words, walks through the fulfilled prophecies and evidence for who Jesus really is, and unpacks the promise of John 3:16, that whoever believes in Him will not perish but hav...

Revival in America has never come from human effort. It comes from the Holy Spirit, and history shows U.S. presidents have prayed this exact truth since before the nation was even born. In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John Dickerson traces one verse, Zechariah 4:6, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, through American history. A year before the United States existed, the Continental Congress called for a day of fasting and repentance in 1775. President Truman signed the first National Day...

Jane Roe, the woman at the center of Roe v Wade, believed for years that some things were too far gone for God to forgive. Then everything changed. In today's Daily Hope, Pastor John Dickerson tells the true story of Norma McCorvey, the woman who became known as Jane Roe in the case that legalized abortion nationwide in 1973. Years later, a pastor led her to faith in Christ, and Norma described it like being handed a cup of water she did not know she was thirsty for. Drawing from John 4:15 and t...